"I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice every day. I did two hours' practice at six o'clock in the morning before I went to school, and another two hours as soon as I got home from school in the afternoon. Then I did four hours at night before I went to bed. I did that until I was fourteen or fifteen."

-- Joe Pass

#Morning Quotes #Home Quotes #School Quotes

“Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.”

Source : Diane Keaton (2011). “Then Again”, p.135, Random House
“Not everyone likes all our flavors, but each flavor is someone's favorite.”
“My final coaching point of the day: It's my contention that in any given moment one lives one's life in one of two ways, either under a threat or for a challenge. In performing when it counts, it's one or the other, under a threat or for a challenge. If, as Einstein says, "Imagination will take you everywhere," then living your life under a threat will take you nowhere.”

Source : Jim Steen's commencement address at Kenyon College, www.graduationwisdom.com. 2011.
“Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?â€ â€œWell I would if youâ€™d let me finish,â€ he grumbled.”
“I struggled academically throughout elementary school”
“I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.”
“Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.”
“You change your life by changing your heart.”

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